Safer Communities in Scotland

ISBN 0 7480 8241 7

Contents Foreword Executive summary Preface 1 Introduction: A safer Scotland 2. Developing a successful partnership Overcoming the pitfalls of partnership working Setting up the partnership and benefiting stakeholders Leading the partnership and choosing a suitable structure Developing partnership infrastructure and resources A successful partnership - check list 3. Community safety audits Why conduct an audit? Who should conduct the audit? Why gather information? Conducting the audit Stage One: Community safety profile sources of data analysis costs of community safety problems Stage Two: Community consultation methods of consultation Stage Three: Policy and practice review Data protection issues Reporting Community safety audits: check list 4. Developing a strategy Deciding priorities and setting objectives Drawing up a strategy for achieving the objectives Developing a community safety strategy: check list 5. Programme management: developing the strategy Developing the programme Action planning process Setting targets Performance indicators Action planning: a worked example Action plan template Implementing the action plan Monitoring, evaluation and feedback Programme management: developing the strategy: check list 6 Bibliography 7 Contacts

Acknowledgements

Holden McAllister Partnership Consultancy

Scottish Executive Crime Prevention Unit

CoSLA Community Safety Adviser

CoSLA Community Safety Guidance Advisory Group

Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland

The Simpson Bairstow Partnership

The Scottish Executive would like to thank all the people who were interviewed, and who passed on valuable information and case studies as part of the research for this guidance document.

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